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In article <zisk-191192103957@macne006.boston.us.adobe.com> zisk@adobe.com (Stephen Zisk) writes:
|In response to what Chris Lewis and Walter C3arlip wrote, and amplifying
|what Jim Delahunt said, I want to add my $.02. As a caveat, let me say
|I am not a type designer or expert, just an interested amateur.

|    1.) The "design center" for scaling Type 1 fonts (except, of course,
|        for *some* Multiple Master typefaces), is linear scaling at all
|        point sizes.

|    2.) Hints are used to overcome the limitations of low-resolution
|        digital printers. They primarily prevent various kinds of uneven
|        "color" and illegible characters. They do not have substantial
|        effect at large point sizes and high resolutions.

Oops, I realize now where I went wrong which led to me saying that linear
scaling doesn't work that well.  My code scales *bitmaps* (not outlines),
and given the that the base fonts are fairly small pointsizes (10),
they've been "hinted" already.  Ie: linearly scaling a hinted bitmap may not
look all that great.
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